First, this doesn’t refer to ALL Cardinals fans. I know some Card fans who are as loyal and as knowledgable of the game as are the vast majority of Cubs fans.
But most Card fans spend bad mouth their team as much as they praise them. I was in a certain Cardinals-centric bar a few weeks ago — back when it looked like they were going to choke their way out of the playoffs — and you should have heard the language they were using against their own team.
Disgraceful.
Last night, I was able to catch the top of the 8th inning. A fellow employee came into the lounge just as the Tigers had made their first out. “Woo Hoo! Just two more out and the Cardinals win.”
“Um, no. This the top of the 8th. There’s still the 9th.”
“But the Cardinals won’t have to come to bat if Detroit doesn’t score.”
U’m, NO, Mr. Cardinals fan. Both teams bat in every inning, except the bottom of the ninth. The Tigers still come to bat in the top of the 9th.”
“Oh, yeah. Thats’s right. Woo Hoo!”
Yep. They come out of the woodwork after a successful season. But they are still the second favorite team in Peoria. You will occasionally see Cardinals fans climb onto the White Sox or Cubs bandwagons. You will never, ever see Cubs fans do that. It just doesn’t happen.
And speaking of Cardinals fans, I actually heard “baseball fans” at the new Busch Stadium chanting “Dee-fence! Dee-fence!” last night. You know, what they chant at FOOTBALL games.
You see, there are Cardinals fans who get baseball and football confused, and some who never quite picked up on the fact that the football meam moved to Arizona.
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Yet another Cub fan standing in line at the sour grapes concession. I’ve noticed Cardinals fans have the uncanny ability to remember to set their clocks backwards one hour on the weekend following a World Series victory, while Cubs fans have the uncanny ability to tell me exactly how many days it is until next year. Simply amazing…
Bill,
Repent , your foolish ways. Join the side of Truth and Light. Become a White Sox fan. The North Siders will leave you broken hearted. Just like Bill Clinton leaving his dates by the side of the road, dresses mangled and makeup smeared,
The Cubs will do that to you again and again. And yet you keep on asking for it
Hey Bill … I lived in St. Louis for almost 15 years before I moved up here, and I have never experienced a more dedicated bunch of fans ANYWHERE. St. Louis is one of the best baseball towns in the country. Maybe it’s just the Peoria Cardinal fans that are lukewarm.
There’s a vast difference between a baseball fan and a fan of a specific team. Baseball fans are knowledgeable to the game and how it is played, and may also be fans of a specific team. Fans of teams may not understand the game, but they’re the rah rah go team people that you meet everywhere.
There are as many non-baseball fans that just happen to be Cardinal’s fans out there as there are for any other team. The fellow employee you ran into was definately of this sort.
As a lifelong Cardinals fan and baseball fan though i was definately happy to see the Cardinals pull it out against all odds at the beginning of the postseason.
BURL
may i please tell you that there is defense in baseball. seriously, it’s how ozzie smith got into the hall of fame. every cub’s fan knows it wasnt because of offense. get your sports facts correct before you start making us cub’s fans look dumb.
I am well aware of the fact that there is defense in baseball. What there is NOT in baseball — or should not be — are stupid, first-time-ever-attending-a-baseball-game fans shouting “Dee-Fence” just like they were at a football game, dumbass.
There is no crying in baseball.
There are no rally-monkeys in baseball.
There are no chants of “Dee-Fence” in baseball.
I was the ONLY Tigers fan at Buffalo Wild Wings in East Peoria the night the Cardinals clinched the series. Everyone in the bar knew it, because a certain TV journalist from a certain local station tried to interview me three times throughout the night. I sat at the bar all night, and not once did I hear anything classless or vulgar. Everyone at the bar shook my hand at the end of the game, and told me what a great run we had, and how surprised they were that the Cardinals beat a better Tigers team because of some very, very costly errors in the field. Sure, we ribbed each other back and forth through the course of the game, but NEVER have I seen the victorious fans, especially in a majority that large, behave with so much class and respect as the Cards fans at BWW did.
I live in St. Louis, and our Redbirds fans have been described as some of the most knowledgable and dedicated in the game, which is certainly true. However, during the World Series, the air is positively contaigous. You can’t help but join in. A majority of us know what we’re talking about, but some people are still learning.
Also, the defense story, could I remind you that baseball games generally sell beer. And fans like to take advantage of this. Problem solved.